The Best Sleep Technology for Getting a Good Night’s Sleep

Lack of sleep is a serious issue. Lack of sleep has been linked to poor cognitive abilities as well as health hazards such as diabetes,  high blood pressure, depression, and obesity, according to studies. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in the United States over a third of adults do not receive the necessary seven hours of rest per night.

If sleeping medications or counting sheep don’t seem to work, there are other options. A nice night’s sleep is an algorithm away, with options ranging from cheap apps to high-end smart beds.

While our cellphones and their blue light their often blamed for having us awake, there is a lot more technology out there that is designed to keep us awake. And getting a better night’s sleep doesn’t have to be expensive.

How to Keep Tabs on Your Sleep

The first step to identifying and correcting problems is to gain insight into your sleep habits. Sleep is, thankfully, becoming a more common statistic among fitness bands and smartwatches. Look for a gadget that can track your sleep stages,  breathing (aka respiration) speed, blood oxygen saturation status (aka SpO2 or Pulse Ox), overnight heart rate variability (HRV), and skin temperature while considering your selections.

Fitbit is a fitness tracking app

The Fitbit Charge 5 checks every box. It keeps track of how much did you spend in light, deep, & REM rest, and it comes with a companion app that displays graphs of your stages of rest, sleeping heart rate, and much more. It also provides you with a daily Sleep Score, which you may use to rapidly assess the quality of sleep. If you’re not getting enough sleep, these observations can serve as a wake-up call.

Your Estimated Oxygenation Variation, or the fluctuations in your breathing when sleeping, is also tracked by the Charge 5 as well as other Fitbit devices. This information may be useful in detecting symptoms of rest apnea as well as other sleep disorders.

In general, Garmin and Polar devices do a good job of identifying your sleeping. The Pulse Ox sensor in the Garmin Venu 2 helps in monitoring your blood oxygen saturation throughout the day, but while sleeping. It also keeps track of your breathing during the night and reports the average, maximum, and least number of breaths per minute.

App Garmin Connect

Smartwatches can also measure rest. But because they are bigger and also have low battery life, they are less likely to be worn overnight. The Apple Watch The series 7can monitor when you fell asleep and awoke as well as your overall time in bed or asleep, nightly respiration, and heart rate.

It also has a unique charging design that allows it to charge more quickly than before. If you’re running short on battery at the end of each day. Charging the Series 7 for just 8 minutes will give you enough juice to track your sleep for eight hours.

Sleep tracking on the Apple Watch

Samsung’s latest premium smartwatches, the Samsung Watch4 & Watch4 Classic, offer a minor advantage over the Apple Watch when it came to rest. When you wear any one of Samsung’s watches to sleep and keep your smartphone on the nightstand, both work together to detect and record snoring. The watch will provide you with a rest quality rating in the morning. As well as suggestions for how to improve your sleep.

Many fitness trackers & smartwatches also offer silent alarms that wake you up with such a gentle vibration on your wrist, which is a useful feature if you share a bed or have roommates with thin walls. The Apple Watch, Fitbit Charge 5, the Garmin Venu 2 all have this capability.

Google Nest Hub 

If carrying a tracker on your wrist to sleep is too much for you. The Oura Ring might be a better option. It may appear to be a simple metal band. But it contains microscopic sensors that track your activity, overall health, and rest.

The 2nd Google Nest Hub, for example, can track your rest from a night table. A Google Sol motion-sensing chip is built inside the smart display. Which generates an invisible, frictionless tracking bubble all around the person lying closest to the gadget. It can detect significant and little motions, including when you wake up to use the toilet, drink a glass of water, roll back, or even breathe. All without the need for a camera or the need to wear a gadget to bed.

The SleepScore Max is indeed a similar no-contact sensor that sits on your bed. Analyses your rest, and gives you tips on how to improve it.

And, if you’re concerned about your children, they’re also insured. The Nanit Pro Webcam is indeed a baby monitor with rest tracking capabilities.

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